Narrator, Character, and Simile

Ready, Jonathan L.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511760969.006

Character, Narrator, and Simile in the &Lt;I>Iliad</I>

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Narrator, Character, and Simile

Jonathan L. Ready

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“… 2 Cf. among others Fränkel (1924), Coffey (1957), Moulton (1974) and (1977), Scott (1974) and (2009), Lonsdale (1990), Ben-Porat (1992), Minchin (2001), Ready (2011) and (2017). Also note Muellner (1990), who primarily discusses similes but comments on the relation of simile and metaphor as well.…”

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“… 25 On further associations of the phrasing with women and female space also cf. Ready (2011) 50: ‘in the Iliad , the word aguia is associated with the city as a female space. Tlepolemos asserts that Herakles ‘destroyed the city of Ilium and widowed ( chêrôse ) the streets ( aguias )’ ( Il .…”

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“… 27 Also cf. Ready (2011) 50: ‘In its other appearances in the Iliad , the word aguia is associated with the city as a female space.’…”

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Widowing the Streets of Troy (Il. 5.642): Notes on the Conceptual Basis of a Unique Metaphor in Homer'sIliad

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This article argues for an approach based on the cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual metaphors (CMT) by demonstrating its potential for the discussion and interpretation of Homeric metaphors. CMT provides a theoretical framework for analysing metaphors in a conceptual context, and even with unique, i.e. apparently non-formulaic, metaphors in Homeric poetry the possibility of a conceptual basis always needs to be considered for comprehensive study. Even unusual expressions such as the phrasing of Il. 5.642, χήρωσɛ δ’ ἀγυιάς, where Heracles is said to have ‘widowed the streets’ of Troy can be related to other metaphors (esp. Τροίης ἱɛρὰ κρήδɛμνα in Il. 16.100, where the phrasing is formulaic) drawing on the same conceptualization of the city is a woman. This appears to be a contextually specified version of the personification of locations which not only provides the basis for poetic extensions but also has the potential to reflect back on the literal usage of certain salient terms and imbue them with particular, ominous meaning (such as κρήδɛμνον in Il. 22.470).

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Menelaus’ Wound (And Lavinia's Blush)

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The focus of this note is the simile attached to Menelaus’ wound in Iliad 4 and its Virgilian transformation in Aeneid 12. My goal is to flesh out and specify the sense of the Homeric simile; as the parentheses in my title suggest, I call upon Virgil chiefly as a fellow-interpreter. Since an important part of my argument is that the simile only takes on its full significance when considered in its narrative context, I begin by setting the scene.

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